Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beria on Trial. In short, Malenkov was running on a platform of peace and prosperity. It was obvious that Malenkov's policy was dictated partly by internal considerations and the stresses of cold war. A reference to deposed Vice Premier Lavrenty Beria gave a passing clue to a problem...
Shortly before, the plotters were the respected "champions of the masses." Lee Sung Yup, now accused as ringleader, was North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau...
Behind the façade of solidarity, the purge went on. Beria men were falling.
¶ Ousted in Georgia: Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Vladimir Dekanazov, put in the job by Beria after Stalin's death, onetime Ambassador to Germany (1940-41). The purge in Beria's native Georgia was made by General Aleksei Antonov, a wartime army chief of staff.
When the Communists took over China, they thought they knew just what to do with the country's some 3,500,000 Roman Catholics: set up an "independent" (i.e., puppet) Catholic church, and switch them in. For more than a year it has been clear to the Communists that...